You cannot be too careful with your feet. I was reminded of this wisdom big time last week, when I heard about an acquaintance who’s been diagnosed with melanoma and had to have two toes removed. She’s very fair, and apparently never put sunscreen on her feet. Have I ever done that? Not sure. Do not neglect your feet, my Friends!
On that note, a look back at post from early 2006 — probably the…
So it was time again for my A1C and other blood tests last week. Over-time, in fact. You know how I hate going in to the lab when I have to be fasting for lipid tests and can’t even have a latte on the way over in the morning. Ugh! And who ever said diabetics don’t mind needles?!
Anyway, I’d been saving the review unit A1c Now SelfCheck pack I got from Bayer a few…
It’s been a good weekend so far. Sun. Friends. Time off from this box I sit in front of far too much. With that in mind, I wish you all:
Honestly, I can’t think of any group of people who need or deserve a day off more than us chronically ill types.
Speaking of working hard, this seemed like a good opportunity to give a little “linky love” to the good folks out…
{Editor’s Note: apparently I’m all over Time magazine this week, or it’s all over me…}
Finally, some breakthrough diabetes research that does not only involve mice! Time magazine’s August 31 issue reports on new a stem-cell-based study that involved taking skin cells from two people with type 1 diabetes, exposing the cells to “a cocktail of three genes that converted them back to an embryonic state,” and then “instructing” the cells to grow into beta…
A couple of weeks ago, Time magazine published an issue with an attention-grabbing headline: Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin.
Won’t make me thin? you ask. Then what the heck am I bothering huffing and puffing and sweating like mad on the treadmill?
Good question, says the author, John Cloud. The theory, he writes, is that exercise makes people hungry. And because people eat when they are hungry, they gain weight (duh). People also tend…